I sat down to write this morning with an empty mind. I had no idea what to write. Then I received a thought… continue with Matthew chapter thirteen. I obeyed, then God filled my mind.
It certainly was not my thoughts
because I was being lazy and apathetic. I would have preferred to do other
things, but my routine could not be undone, so I just sat there, and God opened
my eyes and took off the scales from my eyes. I saw very clearly what He would
show me — all the things that happened in the dark on the day that God died, not
died, died but came undone.
Jesus spoke to the crowd from the
seashore. His device was to speak in parables — a simple story that most could
understand to present the truth. It was not deception, but a ‘tool’ to use to make
difficult ideas clearer.
That was required because the
crowd were neither divine beings with extrasensory natures nor prophets that
could see things that common people cannot see.
The crowd would not be prophets
nor divine beings on this Earth, so Jesus painted for them simple pictures of
abstract ideas on the ‘walls’ of their minds so they could understand what they
could not see.
Now, for a moment, let’s revert
to the ‘Allegory of the Cave’ of which Plato wrote. Men were chained fast so
that they could not see behind them. Behind them was a light that cast shadows
on the cave wall. To them, that ‘fragment’ (the shadows) of the real thing
became their truth. The shadow of the things behind them allowed them to see
what was going on just out of their sight.
Parables are much like that. The
parables are ‘shadows’ of the truth. Lost men, chained to the ideas of the
world, were revealed the truth by Jesus ‘painting a picture’ for them in their
minds’ eyes.
Some asked Jesus Why He spoke in parables. His answer was this:
I speak to them in
parables: because them seeing, see not and hearing they hear not, neither do
they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which says, “By
hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see, and
shall not perceive: For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are
dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should
see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their
heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.”
But blessed are your
eyes, for they see and your ears, for they hear. (Mat
13:13-16)
Now return to the beginning. God
told Adam about the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. “…in the day that you
eat thereof you shall surely die” (Gen 2:17). Until the time of Jesus, many
still failed to believe that they would die. They freely ate of the wisdom of
the world from the forbidden tree, but they should have eaten from the Tree of
Life, or which they could freely eat.
The words, “surely die” is not an
exact translation; it should have been “die, die.” God said it twice to make it
clear, just as any orator will repeat himself for clarity.
Jesus came to satisfy the
promised grace. Mankind deserved to die, die; but the grace was that a person
could die, then live.
The crucifixion was about God painting
a living picture. He loved His creatures so intensely (John 3:16) that He
painted a picture in much more detail than Di Vinci did of the last supper. (It
is said that it took years for Di Vinci to paint the Last Supper, doing so a small
portion at a time.)
Well, God painted a picture of His
death much more vividly, but so many still fail to understand all that detail.
First God made the ‘canvas’ on
which to paint the picture. It was Calvary, not by coincidence on the cranium
(Calvary) of the world. Beneath the rocks, there He had Shem and Melchizedek
bury Adam in the place of his skull, according to sacred literature. He painted
the picture for both Adam and his kind, not just for the Jews.
Then God created the Roman Empire
to reveal to the world the type of empire that He was Himself ‘Caesar’ over, as
‘King of kings and LORD of lords” (Rev 19:16). That took much time, but God’s
time is not our time! Jesus was not subject to Caesar, but Caesar to Jesus, and
He made that clear.
Pilate, as prelate of Caesar, who
was on permanent vacation on the island of Capri, had the authority of Caesar.
He was the ‘right hand of Caesar,’ just as Jesus was the ‘Right Hand of God.’
Pilate thought that he was in
charge, even perhaps having delusions of grandeur. He would make a name for
himself for killing God.
That failed.
Pilate, making only a name for himself in the Bible, disappeared quickly into oblivion. Here is the picture of that, that God painted into the minds of the readers of the Word:
Said Pilate unto Him, “Speak
you not unto me? know you not that I have power to crucify you, and have power
to release you? Jesus answered, “You could have no power at all against Me,
except it were given you from above” (John 19:10-11)
In ancient days, Nebuchadnezzar
was made king and god for a time just to destroy the Jews and then he was
humbled, and now there was Pilate who was there to save the nations, and Jesus
humbled him. Nations were made for God to plant the world’s greatest picture in
the minds of its citizens — the apparent death of God!
Continuing to ignore the parable,
focus on the real ‘painting,’ not the ‘caricature’ in the parable.
The crucifixion was an enactment
of the ‘Allegory of the Cave.’
With no cave on Calvary, excepting
the tomb of Adam beneath (it is claimed to be there today and is a tourist
attraction), God made a special ‘cave’ for those chained to watch.
Think of the multitude surrounding
Jesus as the people chained to the wall so that they must see the Shadow on the
wall, so to speak.
God prepared the scene for them, “Now
from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour” (Mat
27:45). God created for them a ‘cave’ and on one ‘wall’ of the cave, He placed
Jesus. He fixed Him on the wall, and that ‘wall’ was the portal from life to
death. The Holy Cross was the ‘Wall’ on which Jesus was fixed. Those with
bright eyes, even in the dark, could see clearly the Man, Jesus, by the huge
Shadow that He cast.
In this case, the men were not
chained; the Savior was, but they were in invisible chains — they were blind to
the truth! It was them that Satan and the government held captive, even
the religious Sanhedrin. Although Jesus was nailed, it was the crowd that was
in chains. (That is much the case in this era).
So, it was not an ‘allegory’ but
reality. Neither was this ‘picture’ a parable but a revelation for those with
bright eyes.
Something happened on Calvary for
all those in chains. Suddenly, Jesus “cried with a loud voice, saying, ‘Eli,
Eli, lama sabachthani? ‘ that is to say, ‘My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken Me?’” (Mat 27:46).
First there was Light and then it
got dark. The Father is ‘Adoil’ — the Light. [3] With the Light gone and
Jesus forsaken, as usual, those with bright eyes could see in the dark. God lit
the scene for just a few; He cast the ‘Shadow’ of the Man Jesus for those with
bright eyes to see.
“Jesus, when He had cried again
with a loud voice, yielded up the Ghost” (Mat 27:50).
Arkhas (Jesus) became undone. First
the Light (Adoil) was there, then He went first, and next the Holy Ghost
departed, and then there was One — the body of God without either Image;
neither the ‘Light’ nor the ‘Shadow.’ The Godhead came undone to reveal His
three substances. After all, the Holy Ghost — the ‘Shadow’ of God — revealed right
there in the darkness that God made that ‘it’ is as real as the Man, Jesus, was
then.
The Holy Ghost is still Jesus and
Jesus is still Yahweh. The performance that God created revealed the
truth, to answer Pilate’s question, “What is truth?” (John 18:38).
Just who there had bright eyes
enough to see God in Jesus even in the dark? Pontius Pilate, Dismus the
repentant thief, Longinus the centurion who pierced him in the side to make
sure that Jesus was dead, dead; the apostles whose eyes were finally opened,
and some of the women.
That was the greatest Parable ever
told but although it was simple for God to paint, it was still too hard for the
most to believe! Think of all the trouble Yahweh took just to prove that
He is who He says He is.
That was proof enough for Pilate
who got it; he found no fault in Jesus at all (John 18:38), and Longinus
believed that Jesus was who He said He was (John 19:35)!
Few understood the parables of Jesus
and even the apostles retained their doubts. The final proof was revealed in
detail. God painted a living picture that even a fool could have seen. He died,
died to reveal to Adam’s kind what death was. His body lost its animation, and
His Soul went elsewhere. For a few days.
The Body of Jesus was undone. God
was gone and so was the Ghost of Jesus. The Good News is that God became whole
again, and so can those who trust Him! Just as Jesus and Adam were resurrected soon
after, surely Jesus will come quickly for those who see Him for what He IS.
Most people are familiar with the parables that Jesus spoke, but nobody seems to have never heard of the 'Allegory of Jesus' that He performed.
(picture credit; Sociological Cinema; "Allegory of the Cave")
[1]
In the Garden before sin, Adam and Eve had bright eyes and bright natures,
according to the Books of Adam and Eve. Sin darkened their eyes and dulled
their glorious natures and they became brutish.
[2]
Caesar claimed to be God and appointed himself Pontifiex Maximus. That
was the Identity of Jesus alone!
[3] Enoch wrote of God as the
Light – Adoil — and that Arkhas came undone. That could be the Word as well as
Jesus, when the Cross undone the Godhead to reveal the Holy Trinity.
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